preamble

IPA: priˈæmbʌɫ

A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.
(computing, networking) A syncword.

(intransitive) To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks.

Examples of "preamble" in Sentences

The text of the preamble hasn't changed.
This is the preamble of the Constitution.
The demands in the preamble are not mentioned.
I have revised the discussion of the Preamble.
Leaving the matter in the preamble was deliberate.
The article includes the preamble praising the KKK.
This rendered the sentence in the preamble redundant.
The preamble menitons the amplification of sound waves.
The preamble is not unconnected to the rest of the document.
On the other hand, the text of the preamble is unlikely to change.
That preamble is just an excuse to show this little bit of amateur photoshopping.
'I suspect that this lengthy preamble is intended to conceal the poverty of my story, for I am apprehensive.
This preamble is to note that I discovered quite a few very good authors for the first time via the editor's recommendation route.
Secondly, many argue that the preamble is being read too narrowly: that an individual using a weapon to protect his individual rights is just as necessary to the security of a free state as protecting it from a foreign army or an armed rebellion.
The Nights: here the preamble is insufficient; the whole is clumsy for want of a thread upon which the many independent tales and fables should be strung298; and the consequent disorder and confusion tell upon the reader, who cannot remember the sequence without taking notes.